Sunday, March 7, 2010

March 8 – Stories of Our Own

In Cor Unum, we want others to have good and wonderful things, even when we may have to do without. We want others to win the award, get the job, take the biggest piece . . . well, we are working on that, at any rate!

What we do not want is for others to have the joy of seeing what God can do and missing it ourselves. We do not want to watch others living lives of dedication while we are deciding whether or not we will join in. We do not want to miss the humility of hearing and the glory of obeying and the wonder of walking where God leads and doing, ourselves doing, as He pleases.

We want to have stories of our own, never ending accounts of what God did in us and all around us because we listened so we could hear what He was saying. We want to have our part in what He has in mind. We have read so many histories of so many wonders and marvels and miracles of God’s grace and goodness, and we want our share.

Others don’t have to read them or hear about them, but we need to know that God had His way yesterday in our lives and that He will have His way tomorrow, because that’s where joy is, for us. It is the biggest piece. It’s the top award. It’s the job we always wanted.

What is Cor Unum if not a place where we live to see just what God will do when we do just what He has in mind? We worship and pray and listen and learn and wait and celebrate our way to His victorious everything.

What can He do? What will He do? We want to know! Mary Geegh knew. She lived in Cor Unum and kept to a simple rule of listening, repenting, obeying, and helping others do the same. Her Opus Dei . . . was never to surrender her seat in God’s board room.

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Psalm 27:4

It has been my privilege to compile a "monastic" devotional for everyday life and for women in all walks of life. We take part in this "Cyber Monastery" for the purpose of growth in devotion and the "practice of the Presence of God."

Although we may never meet, we share this cloister and this life through our prayer and worship and small, determined steps in godliness.

Neither Catholicism nor holy orders are required here; this is the most ancient monasticism, the kind that took Anna into the temple in the second chapter of Luke, Moses into the Tent of Meeting, and Paul into seclusion in the early days of his conversion. Within our families and our churches, day and night, alone or in company, we are "marketplace monastics," living to bring pleasure to the heart of God.

Join us - your new "habit" awaits ... here in Cor Unum Abbey.

"One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple."